25 Pieces That Inspire Me (Last Supper)

Last Supper by Tintoretto; 1594. Oil on canvas. Located in San Giorgio in Venice, Italy.

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• Tintoretto's Last Supper was part of the High Renaissance, more particularly a part of later sixteenth century Venetian art.  Tintoretto incorporated many Mannerist devices in his work, but his style became evidently different.  His paintings portrayed dramatic power, spiritual vision, and glowing Venetian colors, departing from Mannerism.  
• One of the most common aspects noticed when observing Tintoretto's Last Supper is his use of light and dark. (chiaroscuro)  Due to the names they share, Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper and Tintoretto's are usually compared.  When so done, it becomes obvious that the two are very different.  Tintoretto's version shows a more stylized, less formal view of the scene; with Christ not being in the center of the painting, a dramatic use of light and dark, and portrayals of limitless depth, Tintoretto's is clearly different.  
• Personally I like Tintoretto's version of the Last Supper more than Leonardo Da Vinci's.  That being said, I already established how they have very different qualities.  With that in mind, Tintoretto's Last Supper seems more alive and more realistic to what the scene might have actually looked like.  I chose this painting because I enjoyed how the artist presented viewers with a different view from Leonardo's version.